Pierluigi Paganini
February 23, 2026
A Russian-speaking cybercriminal used commercial generative AI tools to hack over 600 FortiGate devices across 55 countries. Amazon Threat Intelligence reports that a Russian-speaking, financially motivated threat actor used commercial generative AI services to compromise more than 600 FortiGate devices in 55 countries. The activity, observed between January 11 and February 18, 2026, highlights how […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 14, 2026
A new alleged Russia-linked APT group targeted Ukrainian defense, government, and energy groups, with CANFAIL malware. Google Threat Intelligence Group identified a previously undocumented threat actor behind attacks on Ukrainian organizations using CANFAIL malware. The group is possibly linked to Russian intelligence services and has targeted defense, military, government, and energy entities at both regional […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 27, 2025
A critical flaw in LangChain Core could allow attackers to steal sensitive secrets and manipulate LLM responses via prompt injection. LangChain Core (langchain-core) is a key Python package in the LangChain ecosystem that provides core interfaces and model-agnostic tools for building LLM-based applications. A critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-68664 (CVSS score of 9.3), affects the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 11, 2025
Google fixed GeminiJack, a zero-click Gemini Enterprise flaw that could leak corporate data via crafted emails, invites, or documents, Noma Security says. Google addressed a Gemini Enterprise flaw dubbed GeminiJack, which can be exploited in zero-click attacks triggered via crafted emails, invites, or documents. The vulnerability could have exposed sensitive corporate data, according to Noma […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 14, 2025
Germany’s BSI warns of rising evasion attacks on LLMs, issuing guidance to help developers and IT managers secure AI systems. Germany’s BSI warns of rising evasion attacks on LLMs, issuing guidance to help developers and IT managers secure AI systems and mitigate related risks. A significant and evolving threat to AI systems based on large […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 09, 2025
Microsoft uncovered Whisper Leak, a side-channel attack that lets network snoopers infer AI chat topics despite encryption, risking user privacy. Microsoft revealed a new side-channel attack called Whisper Leak, which lets attackers who can monitor network traffic infer what users discuss with remote language models, even when the data is encrypted. The company warned that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 22, 2025
SentinelOne uncovered MalTerminal, the earliest known malware with built-in LLM capabilities, and presented it at LABScon 2025. SentinelLABS researchers discovered MalTerminal, the earliest known LLM-enabled malware, which generates malicious logic at runtime, making the detection more complex. Researchers identified it via API key patterns and prompt structures, uncovering new samples and other offensive LLM uses, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 09, 2025
LunaLock, a new ransomware gang, introduced a unique cyber extortion technique, threatening to turn stolen art into AI training data. A new ransomware group, named LunaLock, appeared in the threat landscape with a unique cyber extortion technique, threatening to turn stolen art into AI training data. Recently, the LunaLock group targeted the website Artists&Clients and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 07, 2025
Microsoft’s Project Ire uses AI to autonomously reverse engineer and classify software as malicious or benign. Microsoft announced Project Ire, an autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) system that can autonomously reverse engineer and classify software. Project Ire is an LLM-powered autonomous malware classification system that uses decompilers and other tools, reviews their output, and determines the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 18, 2025
LameHug malware uses AI to create data-theft commands on infected Windows systems. Ukraine links it to the Russia-nexus APT28 group. Ukrainian CERT-UA warns of a new malware strain dubbed LameHug that uses a large language model (LLM) to generate commands to be executed on compromised Windows systems. Ukrainian experts attribute the malware to the Russia-linked […]
